ROFLMAO! This is soo funny! And so fitting I know several who fit the bill. When you think about it the whole elder arrangement is as ridiculous as an episode of the stooges.
good one biggs
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21The Three Stooges vs. The Elder Body
by Mister Biggs infirst up is moe howard.
the bully, the boss, the enforcer.
usually the po of the congregation.
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Do JW's Actually Believe This Stuff?!?
by Mister Biggs inthis was just forwarded to me.. (we need more comets to help take all of the stupid people away from among us!).
this comes from the branch in canada....... in england one of our blind brothers had a seeing-eye dog that would.
faithfully guide and take him to the meetings each week.
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questioning sanity rummy..thanks for asking though. dont worry i hate when people do that about me.
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Single at 40 .JW virgins.
by sleepy income on admit it, if you were brought up a witness you were dead scared that you were going to end up like the men you saw prowling the assembles and congregations looking for wives.. there would always be men and women in there 30's and 40 who had never had a boy or girl friend.. i used to know quite a few.. the horror of their lives shocks me.. now i not dissing anyone who has chosen not to marry that is their choice.but these people i know want to meet someone and get married.. but the bad news is that the older they get the harder it is to find a wife .what makes it worse is that the choice is so limited.. many of these grown men are even affraid of women .
why?.
because they are taught that even to look at a woman is to commit imorality let alone talk to one.. i knew a brother who had never had a girl friend , he was about 26 at the time.now a sister asks to go out with him so he accepts.quite soon she wants to hold his hand.. this brother now tells her off, for in the family book it says holding hands is only for people who are going to get married.. he doesn't go out with such a spiritually weak sister again.. what has the socity done to these peoples lives.. many people who were once happy teenagers hoping to meet the wife or husband of their dreams are now approaching 40 or even older and have never even had a girlfriend.theri only hope is the new system and i don't want to breack the news to them but its not coming.
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LOL jbean..
in my old congregation my siblings and i were something of an anomaly because we made it to such ripe old age without being married. I was about 21 when i started fading out...all the kids coming out of high school after me were hitching up with each other and getting married. but the guys were such horrible dorks all of which i had grown up with that i couldnt even imagine being married to them. all i would have had to do was ask and more than one would have been willing but yikes what a scary thought. thank god i didnt.
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Single at 40 .JW virgins.
by sleepy income on admit it, if you were brought up a witness you were dead scared that you were going to end up like the men you saw prowling the assembles and congregations looking for wives.. there would always be men and women in there 30's and 40 who had never had a boy or girl friend.. i used to know quite a few.. the horror of their lives shocks me.. now i not dissing anyone who has chosen not to marry that is their choice.but these people i know want to meet someone and get married.. but the bad news is that the older they get the harder it is to find a wife .what makes it worse is that the choice is so limited.. many of these grown men are even affraid of women .
why?.
because they are taught that even to look at a woman is to commit imorality let alone talk to one.. i knew a brother who had never had a girl friend , he was about 26 at the time.now a sister asks to go out with him so he accepts.quite soon she wants to hold his hand.. this brother now tells her off, for in the family book it says holding hands is only for people who are going to get married.. he doesn't go out with such a spiritually weak sister again.. what has the socity done to these peoples lives.. many people who were once happy teenagers hoping to meet the wife or husband of their dreams are now approaching 40 or even older and have never even had a girlfriend.theri only hope is the new system and i don't want to breack the news to them but its not coming.
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i feel bad everytime i look at my brother. hes 35 and never had a girlfriend to my knowledge. its also made him an angry person. hes not able to talk to anyone without becoming impatient and angry with them especially kids. its so obvious that he is extremely lonely and unhappy. but he does get involved with sports to fill his time so thats good.
i also have a 34 year old sister who is a virgin. she has never had a man so much as look at her with interest to my knowledge. she wants to get married one day but shes never found anyone. what you said in your post works both ways. she limits her options because any guy her age that is not at least a MS or pioneering must not be spiritually strong enough to make a good husband. Single young brothers have come around and she had opportunity to flirt or get their attention but the most important thing to a dub is to find out how spiritual they are first. It doesnt matter how kind, caring intelligent or witty or any of the things that normal people look for in a friend. If they arent giving the org their all then they arent marraige material.
my other virgin sister is 31 and she is a whole nother story. shes really wacked out in the head. angry, jealous, bitter. shes become a cruel person just like her father. in dealing with her i have to remind myself that she is the one that really needs help.
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Do JW's Actually Believe This Stuff?!?
by Mister Biggs inthis was just forwarded to me.. (we need more comets to help take all of the stupid people away from among us!).
this comes from the branch in canada....... in england one of our blind brothers had a seeing-eye dog that would.
faithfully guide and take him to the meetings each week.
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Believe it or not they eat those stories up. I always had questions when I heard that kind of crap but my dad sits my mom and brother down once an week and reads experiences from the new yearbook. you ought to hear how enthusiastic he is.
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My Father Died
by teenyuck ini just found out my father died today...he had a heart attack in the middle of the night.
he was 63, one month shy of his 64th birthday.
my 1/2 brother, age 19, who has been living with him trying to get off drugs, found him in his bed.
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I'm so sorry tina ((((((((hugs)))))))
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Newbies: what your future may be.
by refiners fire ini been out of the org a full 20 years.. what progress have i made?.
well, im not angry anymore at the org.i dont even hate the gb.
i learnt a lot from reading all those old watchtowers about mind control.
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and you've helped people like me so that counts as an accomplishment too
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Our waitress @ Philly Phest was a JW!!!
by badwillie inyes, she was - incredible huh?.
the first philly phest was a great success.
5 adults and 2 children all enjoyed a fine dining experience in princeton on saturday night.
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ashi,
now i know better but at the time i was taken quite off guard by her question. i thought she was tapping me on the shoulder to ask if i wanted my tuna medium or rare or something like that. lol :D
about five years ago or so i had stopped going to meetings for months and my mother informed me that if i didnt start going again then i probably couldnt be in my sisters wedding. so like a good sister i started going to the meetings and was in her wedding. it turned out to be one of the most boring special occasions i have EVER been to. no dancing. no music. no fun! i wasted months sitting through those boring meetings so i could be a part of her special day. i should have just asked her to send me the video...i use it now when i cant fall asleep at night. haha :D j/k
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Our waitress @ Philly Phest was a JW!!!
by badwillie inyes, she was - incredible huh?.
the first philly phest was a great success.
5 adults and 2 children all enjoyed a fine dining experience in princeton on saturday night.
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It was wierd! But I have to say she was very nice. According to her she had sympathy for me because she had been df'd before.
I still wish we had slipped her a little info about the org. But then again its her place of work maybe not appropriate.
Ashi, I just know her first name was Linda.
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Why are people so determined to be miserable?
by Sunchild inas i was reading through a few of yk's words of wisdom, i found myself wondering about that very question.
how often have you heard these statements given by christians in particular (and sorry to pick on you guys, but it's the easiest example):.
"when i get to heaven....".
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andi, I'm interested!! :)
wow, your experience really hits home and gives me a little hope. i think i am really screwed up mentally somehow. i just let negative thoughts totally take over some days and i try but i just force all the positives out and turn them into negatives too.
i have an appt with a counselor later this month for the first time since getting free and i keep telling myself i'm ok i dont need to go. i guess i'm just scared. i've been to therapists and shrinks before but never with the intention of actually opening up and letting them into my head. i also keep having that 'well they cant help me i'm too screwed up' or 'they can never really understand cause they werent dubs' type thinking.
thanks for sharing your experience, i'm gonna go for sure and give it my best!
flower :)